A good while ago I took a Swedish class at Harvard University and made use of the language laboratory for listening comprehension and, especially, checking my pronunciation. It was possible in the lab to pause and record one's own voice repeating the recorded text, then listen back to it. By doing this repeatedly you could really work on matching your pronunciation to the native speaker's. I wonder if there are any language-learning apps that replicate that functionality?
Recording yourself and comparing is such an underrated activity, in my opinion. I'm certain there are language-learning apps that do this, but I haven't used any recently to recommend. (I used to use English Central with my English learners, but it's evolved into something slightly different now.) I wonder if anyone else has recommendations? This is something I'll look into and report back on in a future post, for sure. Thanks for sharing your experience.
A good while ago I took a Swedish class at Harvard University and made use of the language laboratory for listening comprehension and, especially, checking my pronunciation. It was possible in the lab to pause and record one's own voice repeating the recorded text, then listen back to it. By doing this repeatedly you could really work on matching your pronunciation to the native speaker's. I wonder if there are any language-learning apps that replicate that functionality?
Recording yourself and comparing is such an underrated activity, in my opinion. I'm certain there are language-learning apps that do this, but I haven't used any recently to recommend. (I used to use English Central with my English learners, but it's evolved into something slightly different now.) I wonder if anyone else has recommendations? This is something I'll look into and report back on in a future post, for sure. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Mango app lets you record and compare your pronunciation for a word or phrase, but I’m not sure if you can do anything longer.
Thanks so much Aneisha. I'll definitely take a look.